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lifeboat drill and on the stairway going down to dinner.
We arrived in Montreal Sat. morning about 10 AM and I took a taxi to the home that I was to stay in. This was arranged by our sister Sydney 56-K-1 FPE and it was a very nice place. One of my GG friends from L.A. was at the fair at the same time and we both stayed with this lady and her daughter. So far as I know she never detected anything out of order for the 9 days we were with her, though she may have seen the 10 minute TV show that I did on Canadian Broadcasting and which was shown several days after I had left.
Well, we had a great time at the fair. For once I found out what it was like to be a V.I.P. Our sister Patricia 56-W-1 had thoughtfully sent me an application for a press pass which I very nearly didn't fill out since it seemed so unlikely to be granted. But finally on a "what can I lose" basis I sent it in signed by Charles Prince Publisher and Virginia Bruce Editor, of Chevalier Publications. Lo and behold about 10 days later I was the posses- sor of a nice little plastic enclosed press pass that not only got me into the fair for free but en- abled me to go to the head of the lines at all of the pavillions and to take my friend in with me. We saved an awful lot of time that way as some of the lines were 4 hours long. We thus saw about all that was of importance and enjoyed the fair greatly though I was disappointed that there wern't more in- dustrial exhibits like Ford, Westinghouse, DuPont etc. None of these were there and only a few others.
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One intriguing incident has to be related. is usual at such large public affairs there are not enough women's toilets so there is always a line up at them. One afternoon we were to meet Patricia at a certain spot and got there about 15 min. ahead of time, so while my friend waited for her I went and stood in line at one of the ladies rooms. There
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